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Did i buy a fake Leafgreen?

OK so i ordered Pokemon Leafgreen so me and my friend and Girlfriend could all play Pokemon together, but i bought it off Amazon

It looks ligit, the game is in the right case (translucent light green, not see through) the label is a metalic foil and not just shiny paper, and it has 2 details right that no other fake gets: the model number being AGB-002, and the print on the inside of the GBA cart.

However the E rating on the front looks weird and everytime i boot it up it says "The Previous Save File will be loaded"

No legit Nintendo game will ever say "The previous save file will be loaded. The game can be played." When I bought my Emerald off of eBay (very stupid, I know, it was fake >.<) I was obsessed with knowing whether it was real or fake. I watched video after video, read article after article.

These are the signs to look for:
1. Cartridge transparency (Hoenn games at least, not sure about FireRed/LeafGreen)
2. A shiny foil sticker
3. Sticker is centered properly
4. An obvious internal battery in the top-right corner (usually yellowish/whiteish in color)
5. A full "E" rating logo (not thin, but big)
6. Writing inside the cartridge
7. The stuff on the back (not a circuit board... the groovish things? Sorry, not good at explaining those)
8. The cartridge feels cheap and fake, and you could tear it apart if you wanted to

Yours sounds alright until you got to the "E" rating, and the prompt upon opening.

I would like to post my today's experience too. I found a bundle of all 3 gen games on ebay, from UK. I bought the bundle, and all the cartridges have the model no. of AGB-002, the Nintendo logo printed inside at the bottom, just above the circuit board, the stickers don't look like they've been glued by hand, but still, I get the "The previous save file will be loaded. The game can be played" message every time I start any of the games... Also, when I try to save, the game freezes for 3 seconds, and then I get the message that I saved the game successfully. In my original PAL version Fire Red and Leaf Green copies, there's no such things. I am 99% sure they are fakes. Are they, indeed?